The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-28
Genera, and Miscellaneous.

General and M1scelano ouo.
Last week 296 carloads of hive stock were
handled in the livestock yards, Chicago.
The Missouri Pacific Company is now working
hard 10 get it's lines between Kansas City and
Denver completed and in operation on or before
Jan. l.
The Railway Review comes out het-footed in
favor of making the same rate on less then car
load lots on through business which are made
on carload lots.
Within the last ten DAYS s. 900 passengers have
passed over the A, T., & S. F. road en- route
the Pacific slope Almost nightly the train is
run in three sections.
Spoilers thick the Northwestern lines.
On the Oregon Railway & Navigation Comma
one-third of the passenger conductors on alleged
dishonest practices.
On SATURDAY. last the Montana division Of the
St p, NJ, NJ. road was completed to Great
Falls. and on Monday last the extension from
Park River to Laucdon was completed. This
completes their extension work for this season.
A petition is being circulated in Minnesota
praying for the licensing of engineers and
shall copy after Alabama and enact q law which
shall require the licensing Of these two classes
of employees.
The Union Steel Company, of Chicago, has
accomplished the most rapid production of steel
rails in twenty -four hours record Between
p. NJ. and A. NJ. recently 1902 rails were
rolled, and in the following twelve hours ,891
rails were turned ont making total for the
twenty-fonr hours of 8, 1913 rails. weighing 0l6
gross tons The total length Of these rails is
twenty miles.
Under the new agreement between the trunk
lines regarding export business, the chief Attain
tic ports are put on the same footing to the
through rate foreign ports from interior
points in this country. This must result in
advantage to the cities of Baltimore and Phila-
delphia. Heretofore the advantage in the ex-
port of products of the West has largely been
with New York. During the greater portion of
the year such products can be shipped from Chi
cago and other lake ports wholly by water to
New York. and at a lower rate than railroads
carry them. The result was a large amount
of grain and provisions bound for over the
went to New York.
John P. Squire & Co., the largest handlers OF
provisions in the New England States, have
started novel contest between the Grand
Trunk and the Fitchbure railroads on one side
and the New York Central and the Boston and
Albany railroads on the other. The Fltchburg
railroad has carried all Squire stock until
Gently, but now the business is divided equally
between the two lines, and the road that
ceeds in getting the fastest record in shipping
the stock by figures kept Of each days transfers
will hereafter have the whole business This
composed OF the firms cars. and all other freight
trains are side-tracked to allow them to pass.
The Northwestern Railroader. in commenting
the recent decision of the Interstate Com
mission in the of the Boston g. Albany and
the Vermont State Grange VS.. the Boston &
Lowell road, says 1t Is very interesting for the
sake of the legal points involved, and still more
interesting for the light that it throws on the
personal opinions of the commissioners show
ing. as it does, that they would like to take
very much more common sense view of trans
portation problems than the clumsy law by
which they are bound will let them. There is
much good sense in the reflections of Commits
sioner Cooley upon the real advantage which
low long haul rates may often be to the people of
a locality who only think that they are suffering
from high rates for short hauls